Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-04

Bishops Gilmour, of Cleveland, and
Chaard, of Indianapolis, the former the
author and the latter the apologist, oi
| the famous or infamous Cincinnati pas.
toral letter, which was in a great meas
ure deliberate thesis against Thomas
Jefferson's declaration OF independence.
He then says: 'On the 18th of March,
of last year l went nt the request of
Archbishop Corrigan to Washington, to
recommend to President Cleveland,
Brigadicr. .Geheral John Newton, Of the
Engineers, for vacant Major General.
ship. On my return, | found letter
from Archbishop Corrigsn, which l here
publish:
The Bishop of Brooklyn has called to
direct attention to the enclosed circular
in which you are announced to speak at
meeting presided over by Henry Ward
Beecher. As the meeting is 10 be held
in his diocese, the Bishop objects vehe.
mently to Catholic Priest publicly ap-
pearing in such company, inasmuch as
he conceives that great diseditication
and scandal will be the result At his
request / make his.views known to you,
and am forced to say that l, too, would
feel humiliated to find q priest
of the arch diocese openly associate
with man OF such an unhappy reputa-
lion as Mr.. Beecher or Howard
Crosby, who only last year insulted us
all by saying that our country would
rise ag inst thu Romanists and crush
them into dust, because we simply asked
that our poor children be permitted ac-
cordipg to the constitution 10 worship
God with liberty of conscience.
l am, Reverend D,ar Doctor,
Very truly yours,
(Siened) M. A. CoRRIGAN."
In reply DR.. McGlypn reports upon
favorable results OF his mission in be.
half of General Newton, and adds: at
panied me to learn from you that you
feel humiliated by my openly associatipg
with Mr.. Beecher, who was to preside,
and even with MIR. Howard Crosby, but
as you did not forbid me to go, probably
doubling your right to do so. nor even
advise me in such delicate circumstances
to break my engagement, aud as you
mailed your letter "private, 'Iwohld have
had to cause public scandal by break.
ing so important an engagement with
out being at liberty to give the reasons.
Scandal would have been much in-
creased by more or less accurate sur
mises as to the cause, and no doubt by
the speedy publication Of the true
cause, which publication, no matter how
great might be my reticence, would
probably come about through the in.
discretion of friends of Bishop Laugh.
lin himself. l therefore determined to
keep my engagement all the more
readily, as l was confident both from
several past experiences Of my
own in similar matters, your apprehen.
sions and those OF the Bishop of Brook
lyn would not be verified, As a
matter of fact, my pres
ence on that platform drew
from both Mr.. Beecher and DIR.
Crosby strong and eloquent testimony in
favor of the Catholic Church. My join.
ing with these men was to promote the
cause of law. in the interest of morality
and temperance, and in keeping with
the spirit of the Council of Baltimore,
which was quoted with great approval
by DR.. Crosby. l felt that in doing this
II surely was not making any
compromise with the alleged faults
III MT. Doocuor PiN"to Sn"t
acier, nor with DR.. Crosby's
utterances on the Freedom of Worship
b.l. Besides we would do well to re-
member that jury after long trial
failed to find tho allegations against Mr..
Beecher true, and that 1t is a wise
maxim both in church and State and in
society which says, "Da locum poeniten-
tiae" We should also remember that
Mr.. Beecher is to-day regarded as one of
the greatest and most illnstrious OF
Americans and that his advocacy of
any good cluse is tower of strength
to it. As to DR.. Crosby, he will
not improbably lose good deal
of his asperity in consequence Of
such meetings as that between him and
me last evening, and that between him
and Father Walworth few weeks ago
in Albany in the interest of the Excise
bill. 1t may be well in similar matters
to remember the recent example Of the
Pope, who sent to an rch.persecutor
Of the Church doctrines, the order of
Christ, and of whom the newspapers
said few days ago that lie had sent a
special courier to thank Bismarck for
some complimentary remarks made in
an after dinner speech.
With reference to the letter about
political speeches sent by Archbishop
on Aug. 2lst last, he says: 1.-The only
political gathering that can remember
at which spoke shortly before the date
of Archbishop Carrigan's letter Of Aug
2lst, was a great labor demonstration
July 9th, in Union Square in favor oi
Gladstone and Parnell during the Parlia-
mentary election. confess it did not
occur to me that any one would at that
date hold me bound by the voluntary
promise had made three or four years
before, since Rome itself had been forced
to change its attitude towards the
Irish question and since even
Archbishop Corrigan had at least
deem med it polite no longer to oppose the
movement in aid Of the land of his par
enls. The Arohbishop's letter does not
"doprecate interference in politics lin
general
1t alludes to some Of the priests of ST.
Stephens church attending the ecclesias
lical retreat to which also as usual hao
bsen invited, and says: "During
the retreat I hope you viii
think over your relations with Hen
Try George according to newspaper
reports and l could feel much easier il
conscience if you would leave aside any.
thing that may not be unto editicatior
in Catholic priest. I mean anything
that would seem to coincide with Social
ism. am, dear Doctor, very faithfully
yours, (signed) M. A, CoRRIGAN.
Besides the hint given in the above
letter of the Archbishop, received in.
t;mations coming from him that there
was danger of a serious collision between
the authorities of the diocese and myself
because of my advocacy of the doctrines
of Mr.. George. Then follows the account
of the interview between Mr.. George and
Archbishop Corrigan which MIR. George
considered fruitless. Receiving infor-
nation that the Archbishops' council
was to be summoned that day to sus.
/ 1T L. l.